Chopine
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A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud a
Reconstruction of a 16th-century Venetian chopine. On display at the Shoe Museum in Lausanne.
Calcagnetti (Chopine)- Correr Museum
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Clogs are a type of footwear that has a thick, rigid sole typically made of wood, although in American English, shoes with rigid soles made of other materials are also called clogs.
Chopine
…A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil. In Venice both courtesans and patrician women frequently wore chopines c. 1400 to…
Klompen from the Netherlands
Wooden soled type English clogs
Overshoes type of clogs (pattens) with leather turnshoes (German), reconstruction of the Middle Ages
This cowherd appears to be wearing thick white wool socks and black leather turnshoes under her wooden overshoes, which are eased.